Suzanne Giesemann
Learn how to tune your nervous system into a clearer, steadier instrument for communicating with loved ones in spirit.
Discover how to “catch the first signal” from spirit before doubt or analysis takes over — and transform subtle feelings, images, and flashes of knowing into meaningful evidence of who's reaching out.
Have you ever sensed a loved one in spirit was trying to reach you, only to wonder whether what you felt, saw, or suddenly knew was real — or simply your imagination?
Perhaps you've experienced moments when communication seemed to flow effortlessly, followed by others when nothing came through. You know there's something there, but how do you recognize it, trust it, and allow it to become clearer?
What if the secret to stronger mediumship isn't trying harder to reach spirit, but learning to become more receptive to what's already reaching you?
What if the very effort you put into receiving a message — analyzing, anticipating, or searching for confirmation — is actually getting in the way?
Renowned spiritual teacher and evidential medium Suzanne Giesemann offers an intriguing new understanding of how mediumship works: Your nervous system is the instrument through which you recognize and translate the subtle impressions of spirit.
And by learning to stabilize and tune that instrument, you can become more coherent, receptive, and discerning — recognizing the first signals before your thinking mind has a chance to interpret, alter, or dismiss them.
In this groundbreaking 7-week course, Suzanne will guide you through a transformative process of understanding and training your nervous system for clearer, more consistent communication with spirit.
Through guided practices, partner exercises, and live demonstrations, you'll learn to “catch the first signal,” recognize the different pathways through which spirit makes itself known, and allow impressions to develop into recognizable evidence through emotion, body awareness, imagery, and direct knowing.
A central part of this process is learning how to distinguish your coherent presence, or “base,” from the “overlay” of effort, expectation, and analysis that can obscure an authentic impression.
As you become more aware of the difference, you'll begin to recognize when you're receiving rather than trying to manufacture a message — and develop a more reliable process for discerning who is communicating and how they're making themselves known.
There's another remarkable dimension to Suzanne's teaching. Those who have passed haven't become impersonal energy. They remain recognizably themselves, with their personalities, memories, humor, and enduring love.
And communication doesn't simply travel between two separate people like signals between radios. Suzanne teaches that it arises within one interconnected Field — an impression lighting up in you because the connection is already alive between you.
This means a reading becomes a reunion rather than an exercise in fact-finding.
You're not simply gathering information or trying to prove who's communicating. You're recognizing the familiar personality, memories, and love of someone who remains deeply connected to you. Rather than straining to reach outward, you learn to become coherent within.
As you settle your nervous system, quiet the overlay, and develop greater awareness of your own instrument, you create the conditions for a loved one in spirit to become more clearly recognizable.
Suzanne's own journey as a medium began in the wake of unimaginable grief: the sudden, tragic death of her stepdaughter and the baby she was expecting. Later in life, an extraordinary ability to connect with loved ones on the Other Side emerged.
Since then, Suzanne has become a beloved member of The Shift Network faculty, and her mediumship has been evaluated and deemed highly credible by respected afterlife researchers.
Whether you're just beginning to explore mediumship or have been communicating with spirit for years, this course offers a fresh perspective on how your gift works — and, more importantly, how to develop it.
Beginners will gain a foundation for recognizing and trusting their first impressions, while experienced mediums can discover new insights that transform their understanding of the process.
Imagine no longer second-guessing every feeling, image, or flash of knowing. Instead, you'll have a deeper understanding of how spirit communicates through you, the ability to recognize subtle impressions as they arise, and practical ways to develop a clearer, steadier connection with those you love.
During this 7-week live video course, you’ll:
- Stabilize your human instrument and quiet the effort that interferes with communication — discovering how becoming coherent helps you recognize a spirit communicator already present
- Tune your nervous system for clearer impressions by noticing images, emotions, sensations, and moments of knowing before your thinking mind interprets or dismisses them
- Recognize the five pathways through which spirit communicates — spatial awareness, emotional tone, body sensations, images and memories, and direct knowing — so you can “catch the first signal” before doubt takes over
- Establish a communicator's identity first through personality, relationships, life details, and shared memories — learning to "land it in three to five" compelling pieces of evidence
- Allow evidence to emerge naturally through the intelligence of the Field — transforming readings from exercises in fact-finding into meaningful reunions
- Decode names and symbols through rhythm, sound, syllables, and associations — moving beyond chasing names to recognize the person behind them
- Integrate your skills through Suzanne's CONNECT process to deliver heart-centered readings where evidential accuracy and emotional connection affirm the enduring bonds of love
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Suzanne will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to recognize and translate the presence of a loved one in spirit using the power of your nervous system.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Suzanne and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Suzanne’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions are on 2026-12-03 9:00:00 am.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Suzanne. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to train your nervous system for evidential communication.
Stabilize Your Human Instrument to Create the Conditions for Evidential Communication (2026-12-03 9:00:00 am)
In this opening module, Suzanne will introduce a foundational understanding of mediumship as resonance within one interconnected Field. Yet the communicator is not merely a field, frequency, or pattern. The person who died remains recognizably themselves and can make their presence known through evidence.
You'll explore the distinction between base — aware presence — and overlay, the thoughts, expectations, effort, and conditioning that can obscure those impressions. Rather than trying harder to reach someone in spirit, you'll learn why stabilizing the human instrument and reducing effort creates better conditions for recognizing a communicator who is already present.
This shift from striving to receptive relationship becomes the foundation for everything that follows.
In this opening module, you'll learn:
- The role of coherence in creating the optimal conditions for evidential communication
- Why resonance within one Field makes communication possible without reducing the communicator to merely a field or pattern
- The difference between base and overlay — and how overlay can obscure a clear signal
- How trying, striving, and expectation can interfere with receiving
- How to recognize the felt difference between effort and resonance
- An experiential practice using the HARA Method and "reduce effort to zero" to stabilize the instrument and notice what changes when you stop trying
Tune Your Nervous System So You Can Receive Clearer, More Recognizable Impressions (2026-12-10 9:00:00 am)
The person in spirit may be fully themselves, but their communication must register through a very human instrument: you.
In this module, Suzanne will explore the essential pathway from communicator to awareness to evidence. Before the mind knows what an impression means, the body-brain system may already register an image, emotion, physical sensation, memory, word, or quiet knowing that carries something specific about that person.
You'll learn to notice these first impressions without rushing to interpret them. By understanding the role of the nervous system, balanced attention, and intuitive perception, you can become more sensitive to what is actually being communicated rather than what you think should arise.
The goal is a steadier, clearer instrument through which a recognizable individual can come through.
In this module, you'll discover:
- How communication from a person in spirit registers through the nervous system and becomes recognizable evidence
- Why impressions from a communicator often arise before the medium consciously understands their meaning
- The body's role as a sensitive instrument in evidential mediumship
- How balanced attention supports intuitive perception and clearer receiving
- Why immediate interpretation can distort or overwrite the original signal
- An experiential practice to notice images, emotions, body sensations, and knowings exactly as they arise — before assigning meaning
Recognize the Five Pathways of Impression to Catch the Signal Before Analysis Changes It (2026-12-17 9:00:00 am)
Once the instrument is stabilized, the next skill is learning where and how a communicator's signal tends to appear.
Mediumistic information does not arrive in only one form. Suzanne will introduce five primary pathways through which a person in spirit may make themselves known: spatial awareness, emotional tone, body sensations, images or memories, and direct knowing or confirmation.
You'll begin recognizing your own natural tendencies while remaining open to all five pathways. Most importantly, you'll practice catching the first signal before analysis, doubt, or storytelling changes it.
With repeated attention, subtle impressions can become a recognizable language through which personality, relationship, memory, and identity emerge.
In this module, you'll explore:
- The five pathways through which a person in spirit may make themselves known
- How spatial awareness can provide immediate clues about relationship and identity
- How emotional tone and body sensations can carry evidential information
- How images, memories, and spontaneous associations can reveal the communicator's identity and story
- How direct knowing and confirmation differ from analytical thought
- An experiential partner practice for identifying and reporting the very first signal before interpretation begins
Establish Identity First to Better Recognize Who Is Communicating (2027-01-07 9:00:00 am)
Suzanne will teach you to prioritize identity through relationship, personality, significant life markers, shared memories, and personal identifiers. Rather than collecting disconnected facts, you'll learn to let several pieces of evidence converge until the sitter can say, in essence, "Yes — that is them."
Suzanne will also introduce her spatial relationship system as one way the instrument may organize relational information. The emphasis throughout is on landing the communicator clearly and efficiently before going further.
This disciplined focus builds confidence for the medium and, more importantly, helps the sitter recognize not merely accurate information, but the loved one in Spirit who is communicating.
In this module, you'll learn:
- Why establishing identity is the essential first task of an evidential reading
- Five categories of evidence that help a sitter recognize the communicator
- How relationship, personality, life markers, shared memories, and personal identifiers work together
- How spatial impressions may help reveal the communicator's relationship to the sitter
- How to "land it in three to five" strong pieces of evidence before moving forward
- An experiential identification-only reading in which you practice establishing the communicator without giving messages
Trust the Intelligence of the Field to Let Evidence Emerge Naturally (2027-01-14 9:00:00 am)
Evidence is not simply a collection of facts. It arises within a living relationship involving the person in spirit, the sitter who loves or knew them, and the medium serving as the bridge.
Suzanne will explore how information can organize into recognizable patterns before the medium understands their significance. You'll examine the distinct roles of communicator, sitter, and medium and learn why personality, relationships, and shared memories can so powerfully demonstrate that this is not just information — it is someone.
Rather than forcing facts into a predetermined structure, you'll practice allowing recognition to unfold naturally. This transforms a reading from fact-finding into a reunion grounded in evidence.
In this module, you'll discover:
- How evidence from a communicator can emerge before the medium understands its significance
- The distinct roles of the communicator, sitter, and medium within the reading
- Why the sitter is an active part of the relational field rather than a passive recipient
- How personality evidence helps demonstrate that the communicator remains recognizably themselves
- Why shared memories can demonstrate the continuing bond between the communicator and sitter
- An experiential practice using personality and shared-memory impressions to recognize how the Field organizes evidence
Translate Names and Symbols to Recognize the Person Behind Them (2027-01-21 9:00:00 am)
Names can be among the most desired pieces of evidence in a reading because they can powerfully help establish exactly who is communicating — and they are among the easiest to chase.
Suzanne will help you understand why names and other labels may be more difficult to receive than broader impressions of a person. Instead of straining for a perfect word, you'll work with the raw material that may precede it: rhythm, shape, sound, syllables, phonetic impressions, associations, nicknames, and symbols.
This turns naming from a test of mediumistic ability into an exercise in translating how a communicator is making themselves known. By staying curious and reporting what is actually perceived, partial impressions can develop into surprisingly specific evidence.
In this module, you'll explore:
- Why names and labels can be more difficult to receive than other forms of identity evidence
- The difference between recognizing the whole person and receiving the communicator's exact name
- How rhythm, sound patterns, syllables, and phonetic impressions may point toward a name
- How associations, nicknames, images, and symbols can function as translation pathways
- Why forcing or guessing a name can pull you away from the original signal
- An experiential sound, syllable, and symbol practice designed to strengthen name reception without chasing the answer
Bring Together Every Skill You've Learned to Deliver a Complete, Heart-Centered Reading (2027-01-28 9:00:00 am)
The purpose of evidential mediumship is not merely to produce accurate facts. Evidence serves a deeply human purpose: helping someone recognize that the person they love is still present, still themselves, and still able to communicate.
As this journey comes to a close, Suzanne will bring everything you've learned together through CONNECT: Cohere → Open → Notice → Name → Evidence → Communicate → Trust.
Rather than introducing another set of rules to follow, CONNECT gives you a simple process for recognizing what you have already been learning and practicing throughout the course.
You'll experience how a complete reading can unfold naturally — from becoming receptive and catching the first signal, to establishing who is present, providing evidence, and allowing meaningful personal communication to emerge. You'll also explore the trust and confidence that grow from relying on a practiced process rather than judging yourself impression by impression.
The result is mediumship in which accuracy and heart work together in service of love, healing, and continuing connection.
In this final module, you'll:
- Discover CONNECT — Cohere → Open → Notice → Name → Evidence → Communicate → Trust — as a memorable framework that brings the entire course together
- Recognize how the skills you've developed naturally flow into a complete evidential reading
- Move from establishing who is present into meaningful personal communication while maintaining evidence
- Strengthen trust by relying on a practiced process rather than evaluating yourself after every impression
- Explore how confidence, humility, ethics, and self-care support accurate, compassionate mediumship
- Complete an experiential full reading with coaching, integrating CONNECT in service of genuine continuing connection
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-11-17 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Suzanne’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Magnificent You
Audio Channeling Session With Suzanne Giesemann & Lee Carroll
Experience a special 30-minute meeting of Suzanne channeling Sanaya and Lee Carroll channeling Kryon. As these two streams of higher wisdom come together, Sanaya speaks of coherence, presence, and the soul's journey toward greater freedom and peace, while Kryon reminds us of a profound truth: we are not separate from the Creator and the highest consciousness available to us is already within. Together, their messages offer an uplifting glimpse of what becomes possible when we recognize the magnificence already within us.
Back to Balance
Video Channeling Session With Suzanne Giesemann
How can we heal relationships here and across the veil and, most importantly, with ourselves? In this fascinating video, Suzanne channels her guides in spirit, Sanaya. You'll receive guidance and insights far beyond our human stories and hear words of wisdom directly from the spirit realms on coming back into balance in our world of duality. Hear Sanaya's fascinating answers to questions including their description of the soul, interacting with those who don't believe in mediumship, the “Flash,” autoimmune diseases, and more. Feel the uplifting transmission of energy from Sanaya and benefit from the loving energy that remains forever with their words.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Connections From the Core Guided Meditation
Audio Channeling Session With Suzanne Giesemann
Experience the sacred space and peace of connecting with a loved one or guide across the veil. In this audio, Suzanne and her guides, Sanaya, lead you through a powerful meditation where you will feel the peace of going within rather than reaching outward or upward to connect with spirit. Feel the presence of your loved one or guide as you connect core to core, invite them to step into your awareness and enjoy the gift that you receive.
The Monthly Connection
Webinar With Suzanne Giesemann
What happens when life suddenly pushes your buttons and your mind begins creating a story about what just happened? In this recent 90-minute Monthly Connection webinar, Suzanne shares two unexpected encounters that gave her the perfect opportunity to put Spirit's teachings into practice when her buttons were pushed. You'll explore how quickly you can be pulled away from your center and learn how to "Give it a R.E.S.T.," a simple new tool for catching the stories of the mind before they take over. Suzanne also shares several experiences that reveal just how close and involved Spirit can be in the ordinary moments of your life.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Suzanne Giesemann
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from evidential medium Suzanne Giesemann — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option, a teaching segment of 60 minutes, a Q&A for 30 minutes, and an optional breakout session for 30 minutes. Program sessions are on 2026-12-03 9:00:00 am.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcript after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the insights and practices you found most impactful.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Breakout Sessions
Following each 90-minute live class, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive breakout session. You’ll be placed in a small, intimate Zoom group with a few other participants to interact, reflect, and share around a weekly topic, helping you more fully integrate the lessons. Breakout sessions are not recorded. Whether or not you attend the live sessions, the online community group provides a space for you to connect with each other and arrange alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Tuning Your Instrument for Evidential Mediumship
We feel honored that Suzanne Giesemann has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with an evidential medium whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about training your nervous system for evidential communication, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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About Suzanne Giesemann
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Suzanne Giesemann is a spiritual teacher, bestselling author, and award-winning documentarian recognized on Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. Others on the list included Pope Leo and the Dalai Lama. She now guides people to live consciously connected and divinely guided lives through her teachings, workshops, and retreats.
In 2024, she was awarded the prestigious 2024 Humanity's Team Spiritual Leadership Award, which has only been given 11 times since 2006. Past recipients of this award include Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela (posthumously).
A former Navy Commander with a master’s degree in National Security Affairs, Suzanne served as a commanding officer and aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Her transition from senior military officer to her current work is featured in the award-winning documentary Messages of Hope, based on her memoir by the same name.
She is the founder of The Awakened Way℠, a path to living a consciously connected and divinely guided life. She is the creator of the BLESS ME Method© of connecting to higher consciousness, and the popular SIP of the Divine© meditation. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, a group of thought leaders from diverse disciplines who come together to help support a global shift in consciousness.
Suzanne has authored 16 books, including The Awakened Way and Wolf’s Message, the latter of which is the inspiration for her 2025 documentary produced in partnership with filmmaker Jim Spruell. She has also created six Hemi-Sync recordings and shares her insights with millions through her YouTube channel, the Daily Way inspirational messages, and the Awakened Way app.
She serves as faculty with The Shift Network and Humanity’s Team, and is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, a group of thought leaders from diverse disciplines who help support a global shift in consciousness.
Suzanne is known for her joyful, down-to-earth teaching style, laced with hope and healing messages that go straight to the heart.
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